Journal-bearing



(No Model.) Q R. W. & W. HUBBARD.

JOURNAL BEARING.

No. 268,236. Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD W. HUBBARD AND WILLIAM HUBBARD, OF ASHTABULA, OHIO.

JOURNAL-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, RICHARD W. HUBBARD and WILLIAM HUBBARD, ot' Ashtabula, in the county of Ashtabula andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Bearings; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to that class of journal-bearings known as anti-friction bearings. Heretofore various devices of this character have been used in which anti-friction rollers have been employed; but said devices have been more or less complicated, expensive in manufacture, and liable to injury and disarrangement.

The object of our invention is to improve and simplify this class of axle-bearings by avoiding all complication of parts, and providing a bearing requiring a comparatively small cost in manufacture, and adapted to be reliable and durable in operation.

The invention consists in the combination, with an axle provided with an annular shoulder and a spindle screw-threaded at its outer end, of a box or sleeve adapted to receive said spindle and a series of anti-friction rods or rollers abutting at one end against the shoulder of the axle and at their opposite ends against a retaining cap or nut, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in elevation of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is a view in transverse section.

Arepresents our axle, provided with an annular shoulder, a, and a spindle, B, the latter part of Letters Patent No. 268,236, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filed August 26,1882. (No model.)

rollers, adapted to hear at their inner ends against the shoulder a.

E represents a sleeve or box adapted to fit over the rollers D and rest at its inner end against the shoulder a. After the rollers and sleeve are arranged as above described they are secured in place by the nut U, against which the outer ends of said rollers and sleeve bear, as shown. Thus the parts are held so curely in place and are not liable to disarra-ngenient.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the spindle B, provided with a shoulder, a, having a plain flat bearing-face, the outer end of the spindle being screw-threaded, of a series of anti-friction rollers, D, all 02" the same diameter and length, and formed with square ends, said rollers being supported directly upon the spindle, with their inner ends resting against the spindleshoulder, a sleeve or box encircling the antifriction rollers, and a nut, G, secured to the outer end of the spindle, and covering the outer end of the sleeve and the outer ends of the rollers, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD YV. HUBBARD. WILLIAM HUBBARD.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL W. CROSBY, ALBERT SHERMAN. 

